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- From: chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu (David Chiu)
- Subject: Re: IDE Drives
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.195341.22457@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Summary: IDE Connector
- Originator: chiu@alumni
- Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster)
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- Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers
- References: <01GS9JQW5RLS8YA6E5@ALBION.BITNET> <1992Dec13.211647.10442@news.columbia.edu> <SKNKWRKS.92Dec13165350@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:53:41 GMT
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- In article <SKNKWRKS.92Dec13165350@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
-
- >Not true. IDE drives take a 40-pin connector...and odds are that each
- >of the 40 pins serves some purpose. Attempting to use DB-25 SCSI
- >cables with IDE drives would more than likely ruin both the drive and
- >the controller.
-
- WRONG again. IDE connector like the SCSI connector, has a lot of ground lines.
- Look it up in one of the older BYTE issue (Sorry, the issue number escapes
- my mind at this time)
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- In fact, check out the old AI (RIP) drives... they were using cheap XT IDE
- drives in their InnerDrive and OverDrive.
-
- >You can, however, put an IDE drive in a "SCSI" case, replace the SCSI
- >cabling with something that'll work with IDE (perhaps using some sort
- >of high-density connector), and roll it all together.
-
- What it amounts to is hacking a cable...
-
- > _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
- > / v \ Call the Skunk Works BBS today! Ask me about SoftDAC--digital
- >(IIGS( (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis audio for your Apple IIe/IIc!
- > \_^_/ --==## "Apple II Forever" is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ##==--
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